Chapter One

"I'm here," Katherine Pierce entered her old dorm room (for a while anyway.) She cocked her head slightly hoping not to deal with her bitchy doppelganger Elena Gilbert and the newly resurrected Bennett witch.

She hadn't been planning on returning especially after she had basically told her long, lost daughter Nadia to get the hell out of her life. She needed to find out a way for her to stop aging especially since her teeth were falling out and her hair was turning gray, she had a feeling she didn't have a lot of time left.

So when Caroline Forbes, ex-cheerleader and her ex-victim had told her that she needed to return to the dorm room as soon as possible she had done it without hesitating. It wasn't as if she had anything better to do other than obsess over the fact that her beautiful hair was falling out.

She had to admit rather grudgingly that Caroline hadn't been that bad of a roommate, besides the fact that Caroline had the tendency to be a complete control freak when it came to redecorating and keeping everything in its right place.

But the two girls had, had a decent time together and Katherine wouldn't have minded staying there for a few more days, but then Elena and Bonnie had move back. Katherine and Caroline had even gone as far as discussing boy problems. Caroline about her wolf ex-boyfriend and Katherine had even confessed to her about her short fling with the oldest Mikaelson sibling.

"Thanks for coming," Caroline said a little nervously, she was dressed in shorts and a nice top and was holding a white handkerchief in her hand.

Katherine raised an eyebrow. "Why are you so jumpy? Is the big, bad professor scaring you again?"

Caroline shut her eyes as if she was going to commit some big crime. "I'm really sorry about this, Katherine. You won't regret it, I promise."

Before Katherine could ask what the hell she meant by that, Caroline used her vampire speed to position herself behind Katherine. She pressed the handkerchief on top of Katherine's nose and mouth.

It was soaked with some sort of liquid. Katherine recognize the scent. Sleeping powder.

What. The. Hell?

Katherine struggled and tried to pull Caroline's blond hair so that she would let go, but it was completely useless, because the blond was ten times stronger than her.

"It will be over soon," Caroline whispered soothingly in her ear. "You'll thank me for this, I promise."

Before Katherine could offer a sarcastic reply mixed in with an insult she felt her body growing weak and her eyes closed as she fell into deep sleep.

The sounds that woke Katherine up were the sounds of the wind and tires as the car cruised down the freeway. Katherine's brown eyes opened slowly as she looked at the car's interior. Clean, sparkly even, beige leather interior and the radio was playing some sweet country song.

Definitely Caroline.

She jumped in her seat and glared at her kidnapper. "Caroline, what the hell?"

"Hey, you're awake good." Caroline said cheerfully oblivious to Katherine's discomfort. "I was wondering when you were going to wake up, I may have gone a little overboard on the sleeping powder."

Before Katherine could continue screaming her head off, she froze when saw a big WELCOME TO LOUSIANA sign. "What are we doing in Louisiana?" she croaked.

Caroline exited the freeway and pulled into the driveway of a nearby McDonalds's. "Look, Katherine you weren't a terrible roommate and since you helped in your own way to bring Bonnie back to life I thought I'd return the favor."

"So you thought you would kill me yourself before my body shuts down on me?" she replied icily. "I'm touch, Caroline."

"No, silly," Caroline said cheerfully. "I've been thinking-"

"-That's comforting."

"Since you only have a few months left-"

"Thanks for the support. Nice of you to tell me that I shouldn't give up."

"-well, fine let's just say you don't make it out alive. I thought it would be nice if you got your priorities in order."

Katherine blinked and it took a few seconds for her brain to calculate everything that Caroline had said. Louisiana. New Orleans. Klaus. Elijah. "Are you insane, you brought me here so that I could say goodbye to Elijah? Do you know who else lives in New Orleans, Caroline?"

Caroline shifted in her seat. "Yes, Klaus I know."

Katherine closed her eyes and begged for patience. "Yes, Klaus ergo, the man who wants to kill me," she scoffed. "Did you honestly think that we would be able to waltz into New Orleans, tell Klaus I'm dying and he would immediately open his doors for me?"

Caroline shrugged. "Well . . . yeah."

Katherine muttered under her breath.

Caroline decided to steer the conversation somewhere else. "Hey, I'm hungry. Do you want to get something to eat?"

She scrunched up her nose. "I'm not eating at some disgusting fast food joint."

Caroline rolled her eyes as she opened the car. "Stop being such a baby."

"You better eat," Caroline warned Katherine. Katherine had been glaring at her for their entire twenty minute lunch, her burger and fries laid untouched. "I'm not making another stop until we reach our hotel so unless you want to eat the mints they offer at the check in desk I suggest you eat something."

Katherine took a small bite of her French fry, before she put it back down. "Ok, enough with the dramatics Forbes why are you doing this?"

Caroline took a sip of her soda. "What do you mean?"

"I mean I did kill you once and I've attempted to kill your best friend at least twice as she likes to remind you every day. I'm not buying the whole deathbed last wish thing," she crossed her arms over her chest. "So talk."

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Are you always this paranoid? I'm trying to do something nice for you, Katherine. No strings attached. Just because I couldn't have my happy ending with Tyler, doesn't mean you shouldn't have yours with Elijah."

"Caroline, I'm touched." She gave her a sweet smile before dropping it. "But you're wasting your time, because the only way you're talking me to New Orleans is kicking and screaming. Now take me home."

"Aw, it's so cute how you think you still have a choice in the matter," Caroline grabbed her arm and practically dragged her to the car. "Come on Pierce, we still have 452 miles to go."

-End of Chapter One-

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